Kristen Stewart is being honored with the visionary award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival opening night gala, a prize that is a bit unusual for the actor to accept.
Speaking to Variety‘s Angelique Jackson, Stewart said her job is to serve the vision of filmmakers and not to always have her own sense of vision. “When I saw that I was being given the visionary award I was like, ‘What a word!'” Stewart said during Variety On The Carpet, presented by DIRECTV. “As an actor, you’re not often glorified for your vision.
You fit into other people’s visions and service their efforts and their endeavors and the messages they want to get across.” “Actors feel like little soldiers for other people’s causes,” she continued. “Coming to this festival and continuing that march, it’s a truly..it’s the apex of where you want to get.
If you make an indie…movie in America and you get to go to Sundance, you’ve arrived. That’s the goal.” Stewart has two movies world premiering at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival: “Love Lies Bleeding” and “Love Me.” But she also has another purpose while on the ground in Park City, Utah.
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